On Wed October 26 2005 16:22, Bryce Schober wrote:
> On 10/26/05, Jim Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello All:
> >
> > I have recently been able to open one of my large (25 meg) excel
> > spreadsheets in Calc. With help from Daniel Rentz I was able to clean up
> > a few of the formulas and the whole thing is working (well I have not
> > tried the macros yet). Anyway, Calc took a LONG time to open the file
> > and even LONGER to save it (many minutes, I didn't time it because I'm
> > not that patient). I thought that maybe when I saved it in ODS format it
> > would go much faster but it did not. These long save times will prevent
> > me from migrating to Calc.
> >
> > Is there a trick to working with large files in calc? The same
> > spreadsheet opens and saves in a few seconds with excel and gnumeric.
>
> Apparently not. I've had similar problems (see
> http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1905 ), and they don't
> seem to care much.
> I guess our usage doesn't fit the profile of the
> users that they care about...
Not true. There are a few solutions which are being discussed and tested, but
it is not a trivial problem. The solution would also help ALL users open
their docs quicker not just large docs.
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